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This is Volume I of III of the Gemini VII voice communications transcript, covering pages 1 to 337 and marked Confidential. It records air-to-ground, ground-to-air and on-board exchanges beginning at lift-off. Early passages cover staging, orbit insertion and stationkeeping with the booster, which the crew reports is venting heavily, and they photograph it. Later passages near 116 hours hold the crew's detailed descriptions of airglow, stars and a sunrise seen from orbit.
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# CONFIDENTIAL 74:56:24 C All right. 74:56:25 CC Okay, the RSS H2. Prior to the sleep period, we'd like you to build it up to about 445 psia. This is an on-board reading. 74:56:36 C Right. 74:56:37 CC This gives you about 5 hours after your sleep period before you actually hit the dome, or before you actually would need heat with the present decay rate. 74:56:48 C Right. 74:56:49 CC So what we're going to suggest then is that you keep the RSS H2 heaters off during the sleep period. 74:56:56 C H2 off also. 74:56:58 CC Right. Now your RSS O2. We'll give you an exact time account on this, but what we're going to like you to do, or want you to do, is go to the AUTO position on your heater, probably about one revolution prior to your sleep period. This will give us a chance to monitor the heater and the temperatures and watch them stabilize out. 74:57:21 C Roger. 74:57:22 CC And we'll give you a hack exactly when we want you to go to the AUTO position on the O2. 74:57:28 C Fine and dandy. 74:57:37 C Taking an S-5 picture. 74:57:40 CC Say again, Frank. 74:57:43 C I'm sorry. I was trying to record that hack. 74:57:45 CC Okay. 74:57:46 Ready? 74:57:47 Hack. 74:57:48 Good. ## CONFIDENTIAL
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. The text was read from the page images by GLM-OCR; expect the odd misread word. 341 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.